Word: bring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret that the Yale News is not satisfied with the result of the recent conference on athletics at Harvard.-"Despite this conference," it says, "which was to bring about a better common understanding between the Harvard faculty and the students, we are of the opinion that the future action of the faculty is still 'one of those things no fellow can find out,' and we should not be surprised to find them issuing some such well-considered manifesto as that which they directed against foot-ball last fall. We most heartily congratulate ourselves that no meeting of representatives...
...with individual athletic culture so with inter-collegiate contests; the student holds opinions about them differing diametrically from those of the faculty. He wishes to employ professional trainers; to arrange trial contests with the most formidable opponents, amateur or professional; to bring antagonists from afar; and to provide the necessary funds by holding the contest in cities remote and inconvenient, but whose residents are more liberal with gate-money than would be the home assemblies. He wishes to make these contests the event of the college year, and to subordinate to them study and examinations-anything and everything. He wishes...
...years ago he had expressed himself in favor of such a move at present he did not wish to commit himself in favor of it. As to the first alternative, that seemed at present to be highly objectionable. The second was the measure which the faculty was striving to bring about. To effect this purpose a meeting of delegates from college faculties had recently been held in New York. A committee from that assembly would meet today when it was expected that, without doubt, all the colleges, with the possible exception of Yale, whose purpose no man could fathom, would...
...fence around the new grounds and regretted that the circle of benches now on Jarvis shut off so large a part of the grounds from public view. What resource in default of this customary one there would remain to pay the expenses of intercollegiate contests, the discussion did not bring to light...
...college to arrange such a course than to arrange the classical readings in Sever 11. Should they not see fit to undertake such a project, then one of the numerous special societies, Historical Society, Finance Club, and others, of which we hear so little in public, might bring their forces together and persuade the professors to lecture under their auspices. It is certainly worth a trial and a successful effort in that direction would meet with the hearty approbation which it deserves...